Artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine’s ability to perform tasks associated with the intelligence characteristic of humans, such as reasoning, finding meaning, generalizing and learning from past experience. Today, AI completes diverse tasks from...

According to the American Geriatrics Society, more than half of older adults in hospitals or long-term care (LTC) homes experience malnutrition. Malnutrition includes both under- and over-nutrition and can result in health issues, functional...

Over one million people worldwide are diagnosed with blood cancer every year, causing 720,000 deaths annually. Blood cancers begin when cells in the bloodstream or bone marrow mutate, allowing them to multiply excessively and have...

Epidemiology is a branch of medicine that deals with the causes, frequency and pattern of diseases in a population. It examines how diseases can be tracked, predicted and prevented. Epidemiology is considered the foundation...

One in every 5,000 babies experience persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN), a lethal condition that occurs when they are unable to get enough oxygen after being born. It is one of the leading causes of...

Sixty per cent of Canadian adults have hearing problems and many are unaware of it. Approximately 382,700 are deaf, with another 3,827,000 being hard of hearing. Others have high-frequency hearing loss and/or tinnitus, a...

Lei Xing had always been fascinated by the human brain. Initially, his desire to understand the inner workings of the brain led him to medical school to become a medical doctor. When he ultimately changed...